Événement

Te Deum and Jubilate November 23, 2014

3pm NOVEMBER 23, 2014 at All Saints Parish Brookline 1773 Beacon St. Brookline, MA 02445

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The Henry Purcell Society presents Purcell's 1694 "TE DEUM AND JUBILATE IN D," with the trebles from the All Saints Ashmont choir of Men and Boys, All Saints Brookline choirs, countertenors Gerrod Pagenkopf and Douglas Dodson, tenor Charles Blandy, bass Robert Honeysucker, strings and trumpets.

Sensational at the time, his setting of the Te Deum and Jubilate broke with deeply rooted traditional English settings of the liturgy, so much so that Purcell's contemporary, composerThomas Tudway wrote:

"...There is in this Te Deum, such a glorious representation, of ye Heavenly Choirs, of Cherubins and Seraphins, falling down before ye throne and singing Holy, Holy, Holy as hath not been Equall'd, by any Foreigner, or Other... He brings ye treble voices, or Choristers, singing, To thee Cherubins, and Seraphins, continually do cry; and then ye Great Organ, Trumpets, the Choirs and at least thirty or forty instruments besides, all Joine, in most excellent Harmony and Accord... This most beautiful and Sublime Representation, I dare challenge all Orators, Poets, Painters of any Age whatsoever, to form so lively an Idea, of Choirs of Angels singing, and paying their adorations." (London, British Library, Harl. MS 7342, f. 12v.)